PT-2017-13554 · Irfanview · Irfanview

Published 2017-09-18 · Updated 2017-11-04 · CVE-2017-14578

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IrfanView versions 4.44

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .ani file. This is related to "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at ntdll 77130000!RtlpCoalesceFreeBlocks+0x00000000000004b4."

Recommendations For IrfanView version 4.44, avoid using the software to open .ani files from untrusted sources until a fix is available. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the handling of .ani files in IrfanView to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-14578

Affected Products

Irfanview

References · 4

• 🔥❌ https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-14578 · Exploit, Deleted
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-14578 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14578 · Security Note
• http://irfanview.net/main_history.htm · Note